Each four-day workshop in Andean shamanic studies revolves around one of the three "pachas," which are Inca maps of consciousness. ❋ Christopher (2008)
Happy Birthday!! tum jiyo hazaron saal, saal ke din ho pachas hazar!!!! ❋ Cardamom (2007)
“Lords, pachas, and thirty-thousand-franc ceilings!” he cried. ❋ Unknown (2007)
‘Oh, my true son!’ cried the king as he clasped the prince in his arms, whilst all the pachas and emirs shouted, ❋ Unknown (2003)
As the young Moslem gazed around him, and beheld these trophies of victories won by Turkish viziers and pachas in their wars against ❋ Various (N/A)
Irreproachable in morals as in manners; sufficiently well informed; of an exquisite but reserved politeness; understanding perfectly the ground that he is walking upon; making also more advances than is customary among the pachas of modern France, he was, without doubt, the flower of the flock in Mademoiselle de Corandeuil's drawing-room. ❋ Various (N/A)
In vain was it that the Sultan, who in his sublimity scarcely deigned to know the names of some of the great European powers, had caused his pachas to take the field with strong armaments for the extermination of this nest of pirates. ❋ Various (N/A)
These people had encroached upon land formerly cultivated and very fertile -- in some places merely in the fallow-time, but in others in consequence of the proper tillers of the soil being driven away, hopeless from endless exactions on the part of the greedy pachas and kaimacans set over them. ❋ Various (N/A)
Should the infant energies of Europe have a chance, or should the whole of the then known world pass under an Asiatic despotism, with its system of satraps and pachas and the fatal inertia, political and social, which followed in its train? ❋ Unknown (1929)
Corruption and favouritism paralyzed the Government at Constantinople; masterful pachas, aping the tactics of Ali Pacha, the virtual ruler of Albania, were beginning to carve out satrapies in Syria, Asia Minor, Wallachia, and even in Roumelia itself. ❋ John Holland Rose (1898)
Amorite ruler, as it is not uncommon in the East to find a number of governors or pachas tributary to one great king. ❋ Unknown (1871)
But with the Turks, the pachas and beys and effendis, I had much more difficulty, and I must often have pronounced them awry, for M. Jansoulet, on two different occasions, sent word to me to pay more attention to the names given me, and especially to announce them more naturally. ❋ Alphonse Daudet (1868)
Around dwelt the gentry, more numerous and, if coarser and duller, more home-loving and less like pachas than they are now, when the smaller squires and yeomen have been swallowed up in the growing lordships of a few grandees who spend more than half their time in ❋ Goldwin Smith (1866)
I can make out, old Mehemet Ali wants to be Sultan of the Turks, and we won't let him; and so Charlie Napier told him that if he didn't draw in his horns within twenty days, we would blow his fortresses on this coast about the ears of his pachas. ❋ William Henry Giles Kingston (1847)
At first the tribes inhabiting Syria welcomed him as their deliverer, but they soon found that they had not changed rulers for the better, and that he fleeced them as much as had the pachas appointed by the Sultan. ❋ William Henry Giles Kingston (1847)
Everything gave promise of a continuance of fine weather, and so, like two pachas, we sat on the deck, calmly contemplating with philosophic indifference all sublunary affairs. ❋ William Henry Giles Kingston (1847)
I had seen but few pachas during my life, but I certainly had met this one somewhere, I looked attentively and saw that his hands were whiter than those of his compatriots -- this was a suspicious fact. ❋ Jules Sandeau (1847)
His English colleague Warde stationed himself mainly at Tunis, and both acted together in connivance with the pachas of the Turkish government. ❋ John Lothrop Motley (1845)
